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Monday, June 8, 2015

San Francisco Film Award Winners: May 2015

The San Francisco Film Awards are excited to present our May 2015 award
winners. We screened exceptional films from around the
world and our winners are celebrated in three levels of awards:
Best
of Show, Award of Excellence and Award of Merit. Judges score entries on
a performance scale and winning entries are recognized and awarded as
Awards of Excellence, Awards of Merit or no award.

Best of Show honors
are granted to the top scoring entry for each season. Awards of
Excellence are granted to entries with truly exceptional filmmaking.
Notable artistic and technical productions are recognized at the Award
of Merit award level.
No fixed number of awards are granted at any level but rather
fluctuate based on the total number of entries received for each
competition deadline.

Congratulations to all of the winners!

Best in Show:

Diving Deep(22) Ibrahim Jacobi - Germany

Tobias, a young man in his late twenties, is a superstitious person. He
is almost insanely obsessed by a specific type of a woman ever since his
childhood, which he never stopped chasing. One day, when his apparent
dream girl crosses his road unexpectedly, he undergoes a vivid
experience. Afterwards, he painfully gives up his ideal image of a
woman. But life is always good for a surprise.

Horror Film Award:

Award of Excellence:

Carlos Dunn's Katherine (1:28:00) Carlos Dunn - US

A sadistic serial killer who is a member of a secret cell of the Vatican
takes a contract to kill a young woman only problem is the girl's new
boyfriend is in the way and he is not about to let anything happen to
the woman he has fallen in love with.

Disability Film Award:

Award of Excellence:

Epidemic of Knowledge (14) Olley Edwards -United Kingdom

Today 1 in 68 children are diagnosed with Autism, most of those are
boys. It is said we are now living in an Autism Epidemic. If you had not
one, but two daughters diagnosed with Autism, would you want to know
why? What if when you found the answer it was closer to home than you
ever imagined? Are we living in a epidemic of Autism or an Epidemic of
knowledge?

Animated Film Award:

Award of Merit:

Feeling (2:57) Ali Orokzai

Feeling, created by an animation Ali Orokzai, is about a mother bird and
her range of emotions during the transformations and stages of life of
her children. This film is very colorful and the music symbolizes each
stage and emotion of the mother bird. It exemplifies the stages life and
detachment. It shows the mother bird raising her children and going
though “empty-nest-syndrome”. Overall, this film is very symbolic and
showcases the triumphs and tribulations of motherhood.

Student Filmmakers:

Award of Merit:

Crazy Cold (5:19) Samuel Levy -US

In the middle of nowhere, in the middle of winter, a young man on his
way to celebrate Christmas with his family crashes his car and is
stranded in the cold, forced to search for the nearest town. He slowly
begins to experience hallucinations as a result of frostbite, severe
hunger and dehydration.